Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun vaisya

2 senses of vaisya

Sense 1
Vaisya -- (a member of the mercantile and professional Hindu caste; the third of the four main castes)
       => Hindu, Hindoo, Hindustani -- (a native or inhabitant of Hindustan or India)

Sense 2
vaisya -- (the third of the four varnas: the commoners or yeoman farmers or mercantile and professional category)
       => varna -- ((Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis))